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In The Luck of the Fall, characters get lost, they fall, but the falls shape their lives in ways that might even be called "lucky"--if luck is defined as survival, despite the scars left behind. They take consolation in their lack of prizes, in the clarity of their failures, while approaching the future with gallows humor and jaded naivety. The logic of the heart wins out in this short-fiction collection set along Eight Mile Road on the edge o...

In The Perp Walk, his latest collection of linked stories, Daniels maps out the emotional capitals and potholes of coming of age in a blue-collar town in the Great Lakes State. Alternating flash fiction pieces with longer narratives, Daniels captures both the shooting stars and the constellations that build into earned insights and honest reflections. In Daniels's work, the check is always in the mail but somehow never arrives, and honor is mo...

Trigger Man "is a superb collection of stories capturing the gritty spirit of Detroit and the sometimes grim circumstances of the characters shaped by its industry and economics. Grounded on the bleak streets of the Motor City, these stories also explore the mythical "Up North, " the idealized country of many Detroit workers' fantasy -- an escape from the concrete and metal reality of their daily lives. Daniels' characters are resilient and de...

In these linked stories, the constants are the places--from Eight Mile High, the local high school, to Eight Miles High, the local bar, from The Clock, a restaurant that never closes, to Stan's, a store that sells misfit clothes. Daniels's characters wander Detroit, a world of concrete, where even a small strip of greenery becomes a hideout for mystery and mayhem. Even when they leave town--to Scout camp, or Washington, DC, or the mythical Up ...

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The stories in Detroit Tales are tales about urban, working-class America. People struggle both to remain in the city and to escape the city. The three central motifs of this collection are the city, the workplace, and the automobile. In their cars, people negotiate the territory between work and home. Conflicts arise with the characters' impulses to veer off their well-worn paths. What can they do? Where can they go? What forces pull them awa...